The Intention of Resettling in Cities (towns) of China’s New-generation of Migrant Workers and Individual-level Determinants

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10.2991/icssr-13.2013.125How to use a DOI?

Keywords

China; the new-generation of migrant workers; settlement intention; working cities; small and medium-sized cities

Abstract

Under the background of China's accelerating urbanization with worrisome quality, it is necessary to examine the future settlement intention of Chinese new- generation of migrant workers who has a stronger will to settle in cities. In this paper, the current status, reasons and individual-level factors affecting the intention of settling in cities (towns) of the new-generation of migrant workers are studied, based on the questionnaire in 5 cities (counties) of Liaoning Province in 2012. It has found that the new-generation of migrant workers tends to settle in small and medium-sized cities, and the territorial proximity principle plays an important role in making decisions for settlement.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Qingling Huang
AU  - Guangsheng Zhang
PY  - 2013/07
DA  - 2013/07
TI  - The Intention of Resettling in Cities (towns) of China’s New-generation of Migrant Workers and Individual-level Determinants
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Science and Social Research (ICSSR 2013)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 534
EP  - 540
SN  - 1951-6851
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DO  - 10.2991/icssr-13.2013.125
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